Although I think Boxer 99 is a great editor, I'm really missing a macro option as in Boxer/TKO. I've tried to use an external macro utility but found this to ...
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Roger Kimball
rkimball@...
Nov 2, 1999 12:41 pm
I think many users agree with you--this one certainly does--but macros in Windows are apparently very difficult to implement in an effective and elegant way....
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Tim Jones
list@...
Nov 2, 1999 1:11 pm
Roger, ... Unless you are/were an early employee or investor <shrug>. Remko, re: macros. IF it were easy to do right and quickly, believe me, it would have...
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Roger Kimball
rkimball@...
Nov 2, 1999 1:30 pm
... Alas, no. I decided back in 1990 that Microsoft could not possibly prevail. (So much for my investment savvy.) ... Roger Kimball email: rkimball@... ...
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tony summerfelt
tsummerfelt1@...
Nov 3, 1999 2:35 pm
... if it's manipulation of text, then you can use perl or tcl and the user tools option. that's what i do for boxer99 AND boxer/tko -- ...
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Stephan Eichenlaub
stephan@...
Nov 3, 1999 3:52 pm
Hi David, I wanted to view a big binary file (almost 14MB) in Hex mode. Boxer99 tried to do it the fast way and loaded it completely, resulting in grabbing...
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David Hamel
dhamel1@...
Nov 3, 1999 3:55 pm
Hi Stephan, =>I wouldn't call it an outright bug as Boxer99 was able to handle this =>thing, it was NT that started to crash. Still, a design decision that ...
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Marian Floor
mfloor@...
Nov 3, 1999 4:59 pm
Why did a 14 Mb file grab 100 Mb of RAM?...
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David Hamel
dhamel1@...
Nov 3, 1999 5:07 pm
Hi Marian, =>Why did a 14 Mb file grab 100 Mb of RAM? I can't confirm the 100 MB value, but a file opened in Hex Mode will consume more than its natural size....
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Stephan Eichenlaub
stephan@...
Nov 3, 1999 5:11 pm
... Let me guess: Boxer99 converts the 14MB Binary into Hex text display. 1 Byte hex expands to at least 4 Bytes text (2 Bytes for showing the byte in Hex, 1...
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Stephan Eichenlaub
stephan@...
Nov 3, 1999 5:15 pm
... Oops. I'd really prefer if Boxer99 could work on such files. Just to make you jealous: Ultra Edit can. ;-) Stephan, still waiting for his Credit Card...
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tony summerfelt
tsummerfelt1@...
Nov 3, 1999 5:42 pm
i just read that borland is planning on porting c++builder to linux (along with jbulder and delphi) could boxer99 be far behind? :) -- ...
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Jonas Hammarberg
hammarberg@...
Nov 3, 1999 5:51 pm
SE> Oops. I'd really prefer if Boxer99 could work on such files. SE> Just to make you jealous: Ultra Edit can. ;-) when were talking about big files, I can...
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David Hamel
dhamel1@...
Nov 3, 1999 5:54 pm
Hi Tony, =>i just read that borland is planning on porting c++builder to linux (along =>with jbulder and delphi) => =>could boxer99 be far behind? :) Can you...
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Marian Floor
mfloor@...
Nov 3, 1999 9:29 pm
Thanks for the explanation....
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Tim Jones
list@...
Nov 4, 1999 3:14 am
Hi Dave, ... Can't remember when but it was also mentioned on "Developer News" http://community.borland.com/devnews sometime last month. My reading is that it...
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ollie.b.bommel@...
Nov 4, 1999 8:12 am
... user ... Please tell me more about perl and tcl, where do I get them? I assume they are commandline utilities. For instance I used the following in macros ...
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Stephan Eichenlaub
stephan@...
Nov 4, 1999 10:18 am
Hi David, an idea for a nice feature: I often work at the same time on several files in several deep directory paths. To open a file thus often leads to...
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Roger Kimball
rkimball@...
Nov 4, 1999 11:48 am
I have to say that I am totally mystified by the windows file dialogue. There is a utility called FileEx that helps a bit (http://www.cottonwoodsw.com), but it...
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Stephan Eichenlaub
stephan@...
Nov 4, 1999 11:58 am
... Hardly believable that such an external fix to an OS should cost $29.95 ... Stephan...
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Roger Kimball
rkimball@...
Nov 4, 1999 12:20 pm
... Yes, well, you know how it is. It is a definite improvement on the standard Windows file dialogue, but it has some major weakness, as I mentioned. Since it...
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Fuchs, Leonhard
L.Fuchs@...
Nov 4, 1999 1:32 pm
I just want to report a little bug just in case you have the following four lines xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx...
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tony summerfelt
tsummerfelt1@...
Nov 4, 1999 1:56 pm
... perl and tcl/tk are both `scripting' languages, but both can be compiled if need be. you can find perl at http://www.perl.org. it's on a ton of platforms....
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tony summerfelt
tsummerfelt1@...
Nov 4, 1999 1:57 pm
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:56:19AM -0700, David Hamel wrote: =>i just read that borland is planning on porting c++builder to linux ... it was in the november...
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COOK_J@...
Nov 4, 1999 3:07 pm
Boxer folks, I use my tabs configured for 4 to write C code. When I tab over after a conditional statement, the tab move 8 characters at first. Then when I hit...
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rwhand@...
Nov 4, 1999 10:38 pm
Dear David: I have had this behavior several times, and I do not think that it is my machine. I am running Windows 98 on a late model Dell with a lot of ...
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Len Philpot
lphilpot@...
Nov 5, 1999 1:45 am
Or just use TKO... :) ... - Len Philpot -> lphilpot@... (NEW personal)...
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Tim Jones
list@...
Nov 5, 1999 9:30 am
... dialogue. ... No idea if it is any good, but from today's LockerGnome newsletter: Love to hear feedback if you look at it. FileBox eXtender v0.97b7 [370k]...
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Roger Kimball
rkimball@...
Nov 5, 1999 11:40 am
... Thanks. FileEx has this capability. It does not, however, have filename completion, nor does it allow you to set default sort order (or size) of the...
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Stephan Eichenlaub
stephan@...
Nov 5, 1999 1:54 pm
Hi, I encountered 2 small bugs on editing and cursor movement: 1. Sometimes (I haven't been able to reproduce the bug yet but it occurs from time to time) when...
